In May 2006, the San Francisco Police Department noted BNE's stickers appearing on parking meters, traffic signs, and other public property fixtures across the city.[2] As a result of the broken window theory,[2]Gavin Newsom the mayor of San Francisco, offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to BNE's arrest.[3] Peter F. Vallone Jr., chairman of the New York City Council Public Safety Committee, has called him “an unrepentant criminal who has cost honest taxpayers a lot of money".[1]